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feminism stories: 66 news summaries

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OPINION

How Sarah Palin Instantly Improves McCain's Chances

AK gov. steals Dems' after-glow; could attract indy, Hillary voters

Aug 29, 08 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain turned heads by choosing Sarah Palin today as his running mate, and the Weekly Standard explains why she’s the right woman for the job.
  • Democrats just wrapped their glitzy convention, but the Sunday talk shows will be abuzz with Palin chatter.
  • The mother of
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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • feminism • Michelle Obama • sexism • racism • Cindy McCain • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

Opinion

Hillary, Like Suffrage, Is
a Symbol of Frustration

Women remain oppressed

Aug 26, 08 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many have noted that Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight comes on the anniversary of women’s suffrage, but that’s not necessarily the uplifting coincidence it appears to be, writes feminist author Susan Faludi in the New York Times. Despite Clinton’s fantastic primary showing, her supporters remain disconsolate... More »

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Hillary Clinton • feminism • suffrage

 Breakfast With
 Billie Jean King

Tennis legend dishes on life, love

Aug 10, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - As her book Pressure Is a Privilege hits shelves, tennis legend Billie Jean King discusses life as a feminist icon and her "Battle of the Sexes" victory over Bobby Riggs with Vanity Fair. "It caused social change, that tennis match. It was about Title IX,"... More »

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feminism • Vanity Fair • tennis • gays • celebrity interview • Billie Jean King

OPINION

 Hookups Won't
 Ruin Her Life

Flings help today's young women
grow and learn

Aug 5, 08 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - New books are urging girls in the "hookup generation" to stay chaste, but Tracy Clark-Flory trumpets the virtues of casual sex in Salon. While abstinence authors rate women as whores or angels, the 24-year-old argues that hookups help women vet partners physically and emotionally. Today's females take a feminist... More »

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feminism • relationship • abstinence • premarital sex • opinion

OPINION

Where Are the Feminists for Michelle?

Their sense of outrage doesn't seem to apply to black women

Jun 21, 08 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like strong women before her, Michelle Obama has been “demonized” in the press—so why aren’t feminists coming to her aid? asks Mary C. Curtis in the Washington Post. Feminists spoke out when Hillary Clinton faced sexism in her campaign—but the cause hasn’t embraced women of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • feminism • Michelle Obama • black women

Graphic Bod Novel Jars Germany

Female author delves way deep into sex
and femininity

Jun 6, 08 4:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - A highly explicit novel that explores every body crevice of its teenage female narrator has scandalized Germany—and topped bestseller lists, the New York Times reports. The controversial novel, which mixes the anatomical and scatological with the erotic, is a feminist statement challenging a world that expects women to be... More »

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feminism • Germany • hygiene • sexuality • author • German • writer

OPINION

Clinton's Delegate Math Goes From Fuzzy to Demeaning

Equating Fla., Mich. struggle to democratic, feminist, civil-rights causes mocks them all

May 28, 08 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Attempts by Hillary Clinton supporters to link the push to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations with fights for suffrage and other freedoms the world over is "an equation that makes a mockery of democracy and feminism,” Harold Meyerson writes in the Washington Post—particularly since Clinton herself... More »

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Hillary Clinton • feminism • Michigan primary • delegates • Florida primary • barred delegates • DNC

OPINION

Hillary Endgame Isn't a Battle
in Gender War

Clinton 'just a politician' to 30-something scribe, not feminist symbol

May 21, 08 6:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women who treat Hillary Clinton's candidacy as a feminist symbol and see sexism in calls for her to quit don't quite make sense to Jonathan Chait, writing in the Los Angeles Times. "People of my generation tend to have a less personal view of Clinton," the 36-year-old writes.... More »

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Hillary Clinton • feminism • sexism • Jonathan Chait • Gloria Steinem

OPINION

Farewell to Hillary, and
to Sexism

Candidacy exposed America's hatred of women, says columnist

May 15, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton will almost certainly not be the Democratic nominee for president, and the end of her campaign is a relief for Marie Cocco in the Washington Post—but not for political reasons. The end of the Democratic primary, she writes, will also put to rest the sexist rhetoric of... More »

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Hillary Clinton • feminism • women • sexism • Election 2008

 Obama's Grannie
 Trumped Bias 

Madelyn Dunham took on Hawaii's barriers
to women, whites

Apr 9, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama wasn’t the first in his family to defy convention: His grandmother bucked prejudices in Hawaii against women and whites in the 1960s and '70s, USA Today reports. Madelyn Dunham, now 85, fought to become one of the Bank of Hawaii’s first female vice presidents. “... More »

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Barack Obama • feminism • Hawaii • gender bias • Madelyn Dunham

Steinem on McCain's
Vietnam Years: So What?

Feminist campaigner speaks out against militarism at Clinton event

Mar 4, 08 5:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Uber feminist Gloria Steinem downplayed John McCain's experience as a Vietnam POW in a stump speech for Hillary Clinton, and said Americans have behaved since George Washington "as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people," reports the New York Observer. Speaking of McCain's years as a... More »

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Hillary Clinton • John McCain • feminism • POW • Vietnam War • Gloria Steinem

OPINION

Looking for
Mr. Good (Enough) Bar

Atlantic writer argues women should drop idealism and settle

Feb 23, 08 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Women in their 40s waiting for Mr. Right are "almost like teenagers who believe they're invulnerable to dying in a drunk-driving accident," Lori Gottlieb writes in the Atlantic Monthly. Gottlieb (single, 40ish), thinks women who shun "Mr. Good Enough" believing it's better to be alone are kidding... More »

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feminism • marriage • family • dating • self-help • Lori Gottlieb • Mr Right • single women

Feminist Group Slams Kennedy for Obama Pick

Endorsement is 'the ultimate betrayal' of women, advocate says

Jan 28, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Feminists denounced Ted Kennedy today for endorsing Barack Obama, calling it "the ultimate betrayal," the Times Union reports. The National Organization for Women's New York chapter released a statement that Kennedy has "joined the list of progressive white men who can't or won't handle the prospect of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • feminism • New York • Ted Kennedy • endorsement • National Organization for Women

Girl Power Hits Smurfland

New movie rumored to include girl Smurfs for first time

Jan 20, 08 7:11 PM CST
(Newser) - The Smurfs have turned 50 and made it to century 21, but some say the lack of girl Smurfs makes it old-fashioned. An upcoming Smurfs movie plans to fix the gender imbalance in Smurf society, Der Speigel reports: "There have been dramatic changes in socio-cultural values in the past... More »

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film • feminism • Europe • women • Smurfs • movies

Countrywomen Rate Bhutto's Feminist Legacy

Ex-PM advanced women's rights; but
not as much as hoped

Jan 20, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto wasn't always a staunch defender of women's rights, but for Pakistani women the fight for gender equality is a lot tougher now that she's gone. Bhutto may have jump-started women's health care and job programs, but she missed opportunities to repeal harsh anti-egalitarian laws—failures her defenders chalk... More »

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Pakistan • feminism • women • women's rights • Benazir Bhutto • Bhutto assassination • mullahs • warlords

Matthews: Hillary Jab Was 'Nasty'

Beleaguered Hardball host backs down from anti-Hillary remarks 

Jan 18, 08 8:17 AM CST
(Newser) - It took protesters outside NBC's studios, a letter of complaint signed by Gloria Steinem, and a little pressure from on high, but after 10 days Hardball host Chris Matthews backed down from sexist remarks about Hillary Clinton, the Washington Post reports. He admitted last night that saying Clinton's political career... More »

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Hillary Clinton • feminism • Bill Clinton • sexism • Chris Matthews • National Women's Political Caucus • NOW • Gloria Steinem • Kim Gandy • National Organization for Women • Feminist Majority

At 100, Beauvoir Stirs Anew

Female equality remains hot topic in native France on centenary of icon's birth

Jan 9, 08 2:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Simone de Beauvoir was born 100 years ago today, and the Independent observes the centenary by asking whether women are still the second sex in the feminist's native France. Her writings influenced multiple generations of women by dismantling assumptions about feminine identity, and new biographies have humanized the once imperious-seeming... More »

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feminism • France • philosophy • Simone de Beauvoir

The Taser Party: Chicks Dig It

Self-defense-minded women seek something a little more shocking

Jan 6, 08 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - At-home female entrepreneurs are ditching Mary Kay for Tasers, but they're keeping the pink. Taser International is marketing its user-friendly C2 "personal protector" to the public, and women with an interest in self-defense are holding independent Taser parties in states where the stun gun is legal. "It's a... More »

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feminism • Amnesty International • Taser • stun gun • sexual violence • self defense • Tupperware • Taser C2 • Mary Kay

Argentina's New Woman Takes Reins (in Bed)

Female assertiveness born during dictatorship keys sexual revolution

Jan 3, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - President Cristina Fernandez isn't the only empowered woman in Argentina, the Miami Herald reports: Her female compatriots may not be burning their bras in the streets, but they are at the helm of their own sexual revolution. They're the ones shopping at discreet all-female sex shops and dragging their boyfriends... More »

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feminism • Argentina • Buenos Aires • sexual revolution

Female Hunters May Have Doomed Neanderthals

Study says feminist practices put the 'reproductive core' in harm's way

Nov 11, 07 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - "Stone Age feminism" may have contributed to the Neanderthals' extinction, says a recent study, which uses archaeological evidence to argue that Neanderthal females hunted—and were "stomped, gored, and worse"—alongside males. Pitting the "reproductive core" of a population that never topped 10,000 against giant... More »

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feminism • human evolution • homo sapiens • Neanderthals

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